Mental illness is not like other illnesses in that there is no blood test, there is no sure way to say someone has it or doesn't. The treatment is usually some sort of medicine that doctors say they don't know alot about.
Docs say that the meds for mental illness haven't had enough study time, and taht the results are all muddled up. A personality test just tells you what a person may possibly be like in real life. Can a person be ill because of their unique personality or is it all just a sham? Can anyone here please point to credible scientific evidence that mental illness is real and that psych meds either work or don't? Why do they work, why don't they work?
What are the bio and chemical relationships to everthing in the brain & body?
2007-11-20 17:49:30 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
There IS credible evidence of mental illness being helped by medicine. Even if it cannot be tested for in a blood test, there are extensive diagnostic evaluations to identify a specific illness. The medicines DO target the problem of the illness; diagnosis is the hard part. For example, I have had experience in working with psychiatric patients... all I know is I never again want to be around one of my patients when they have a med imbalance. Another example would be ADD, which has both emotional and physiological characteristics. Stimulants are the drug of choice, which correct the problem. The problem being the inability to activate inhibitory mechanisms in the brain. Disorders like anxiety and depression are due to imbalances in neurotransmitters in the body, therefore interfering with neurological messages relayed through the brain. Drugs correct the problem.
BUT diagnosis is the key, and yet it is the hardest part. Yes the studies can be muddled... however muddled as they may be, they ARE helping so many people. I myself am on medication for ADD and anxiety.
2007-11-20 18:03:19 · answer #1 · answered by Lisa C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was a job trainer for Goodwill Industries and my job was working with manic depressives and other mental disorders, The days they were not medicated was a nightmare. Every possible manifestation would be exhibited. The next day with meds they were fully in control and were a joy to work with. You may call that anecdotal, but i could find any number of people that train these clients and you will get the same report. so there is credible evidence if you look.
2007-11-21 02:15:59 · answer #2 · answered by redd headd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They had a good example on TV the other day. Scientific proof and everything. Was very interesting. A new finding. A better understanding. Was good news for a change about this new finding. Sure gave me better insight. The brain is full of wonder and showed how growth will make a big change both in children and adults.
An answer was finally found. With age and growth things will make a big difference.
Glad I could share this with you. ... by the way, it's true and this is not a joke.
2007-11-21 02:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by Eagles Fly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, try looking at it as mental health, not mental illness.
What "docs" say there hasn't been enough study time, and the results are all muddled up??? I WILL TRAVEL TO MEET THEM PERSONALLY.
It takes years, and years and years of study to become a professional practioner in the mental health field. There is no wonder that you do not understand the issues and the progress that has been made. I am a witness to the changes in care over at least 20 years of my life. I am alive today because of medical advances in mental health treatments.
2007-11-21 02:05:42 · answer #4 · answered by bin there dun that 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Psychology and psychoanalysis, also psychiatry, are rather dificult fields of study, but there are rules there to be learnt. Practice is to be done in a flexible way, adapting to the patient. Unfortunately, good therapists are quite rare...
2007-11-21 05:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by Analyst 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take a psych 101 class in collage and learn all that. It takes time so study!
2007-11-21 01:59:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋